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Yahoo! Online Games Contain Spyware

Posted by timothy on from the peek-a-boo dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I just noticed that yahoo.com is offering Civilization III for free, online. I figured it was too good to be true, so I actually read the EULA. Guess what, yahoo is now distributing spyware. The following is a cut and paste from their EULA: '5.Collection and Use of Registration and Usage Information. In connection with your use of the Applications on Demand Services, the installed software contains an application for the collection of data pertaining to your use of the Software and the operation of the Software. Furthermore, your Service Provider will collect data regarding what Applications you use, how long you use them and in which ways you use them (collectively, your "Usage Information"). You hereby give your consent to direct retrieval by Exent of the Usage Information collected by the Software and acknowledge that the Service Provider has agreed to provide the Usage Information gathered by it to Exent (without specifically identifying you). You agree that Exent may use your Usage Information by aggregating it with the Usage Information of other users of the Software to provide general statistics about the Applications on Demand Services as well as for purposes of making necessary adjustments and corrections in the Software as shall be deemed it by Exent at its sole discretion.'"

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  1. ya get it with the turf by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    --play "games" online and guess what? ya get treated like a "child". Those of us who refrain from "gaming" don't get this. Cool. Maybe it's a clue if you take it like that. Lot of other stuff to use these tools called computers for.

    --anyway, sorry ya got spied on. Really, and I'm not trolling either, just like to see folks "not" game with their precious time. The world has a million more important and relevant and practical things to do. Try something else perhaps, best advice I got for ya. this time next year perhaps you might have wished you had prepared better for the collapsed economy and the mega war going on? don't know, that's a "maybe". choices. priorities. choose once, chose wisely.